Re: Checkpatch Feature Idea: Search directory for files with errors and warnings with -d argument

[Nick Krause]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-07-15 at 22:50 -0400, Nick Krause wrote:
>> I may have not found it myself but if it doesn't exist can we write a
>> feature for checkpatch to be able to recursively
>> search a directory structure with a -d argument in order to make it
>> easier to search larger directories for files that still
>> need cleanup for files having kernel coding style issues.
>linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> xargs already works fine.
>
> git ls-files <dir>/*.[ch] | xargs ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f
>
> I suggest you only use anything like this
> on staging directories.
>
>

Thanks Joe,
That was what I needed to known :). I was hitting some errors in arch,
so I will run that to see if there are any others.
Cheers Nick
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